Congleton house prices

Congleton house prices are built from 18,539 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +37.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.4%.

HM Land Registry18,539 sales4,064 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Congleton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Congleton is £302,500 in 2025; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £259,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +112.1% — about +2.45% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +37.6% in cash against -1.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Congleton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Congleton is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,154 certificates cover Congleton, and their median floor area is 84 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +10.5%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

3,034 of the sales on record are leasehold and 15,505 freehold — 16.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £125,000 and the median freehold sale £177,500 — a gap of +42.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +76.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1,117 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheshire East, 44.0% of 197,366 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheshire East at £982 a month as of Jun 2026 — £694 for a one-bedroom home and £1,102 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £165,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.14% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CW12, 175 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 76 violent, 5 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 398,772 residents the 2021 census counted in Cheshire East, that is 0.44 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 398,772 residents in Cheshire East across 174,854 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a CW12 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Congleton sits above that national figure — +4.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,059 per square metre, across 4,064 of the 18,539 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £200 to £2,550,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Congleton sits in Cheshire East, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheshire East at 7.6 times median local earnings of £39,459 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Congleton

• Bollin Drive246 sales
• Holmes Chapel Road223 sales
• Canal Road214 sales
• Mill Green199 sales
• Ennerdale Drive183 sales
• Astbury Street172 sales
• Longdown Road171 sales
• St Johns Road165 sales
• Biddulph Road161 sales
• Park Lane159 sales
• Bath Vale157 sales
• Waggs Road155 sales
• Thames Close149 sales
• Westholme Close149 sales
• Newcastle Road140 sales
• Chestnut Drive137 sales
• Obelisk Way137 sales
• Boundary Lane127 sales
• Leek Road127 sales
• Kestrel Close122 sales
• Lower Meadow Drive118 sales
• Avon Drive114 sales
• Priesty Court113 sales
• Woolston Avenue113 sales
• Belgrave Avenue110 sales
• Giantswood Lane108 sales
• Swan Street107 sales
• Berkshire Drive105 sales
• Padgbury Lane103 sales
• Rood Hill102 sales
• Hawthorne Close101 sales
• Ullswater Road97 sales
• Antrobus Street95 sales
• Sandbach Road94 sales
• Camborne Close93 sales
• Field View Road93 sales
• Hornby Drive93 sales
• West Road92 sales
• Harvey Road88 sales
• Astbury Lane Ends87 sales
• Loachbrook Farm Way86 sales
• Brook Street85 sales
• Tidnock Avenue83 sales
• Kensington Drive82 sales
• Apple Close79 sales
• Elvington Close79 sales
• Fern Crescent79 sales
• Dobson Way77 sales
• Buxton Road76 sales
• Bailey Crescent75 sales
• Blythe Avenue75 sales
• Lawton Street74 sales
• Rope Walk74 sales
• The Parklands74 sales
• Brereton Heath Lane73 sales
• Howey Hill73 sales
• Edinburgh Road69 sales
• Clayton Avenue67 sales
• Galloway Green67 sales
• Malhamdale Road67 sales

Postcode districts covering Congleton

• CW12£165,000 median

What is the average house price in Congleton?

The median price paid in Congleton across every sale on the register is £165,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Congleton?

18,539 sales are on record for Congleton, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Congleton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +37.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Congleton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £302,500, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Congleton?

£2,059 per square metre, from the 4,064 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Congleton house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.